How To Tell When A Robot Has Written You A Letter

[WateryFlow]

I didn't even know but though this may be of interest

 

https://medium.com/message/how-to-tell-when-a-robot-has-written-you-a-letter-701562705d59

Edited September 26, 2014 by WateryFlow

[Seele]

Hmm. I reckon it would be very difficult, if at all possible, to build and programme a handwriting robot to write in Chinese with a traditional writing brush; the writer has to interact with the springiness and torque within the brush head within the context of pressure and twist at any one point, in additional to the shading (due to the amount of ink left in the brush and the previous ink consumption since the last dip).

[Lyander0012]

This is really interesting. I suppose I can see the rationale behind their wanting to develop a more organic facade (as the article author says, he subconsciously filters out inkjet printed spam, and that the handwritten nature of the envelope addressing caught his eye), but this comes off as... mildly silly. I realize that it'd probably take a lot more effort and money in the long run to actually hire people to write letters and address envelopes, but I'm not looking forward to seeing how much this helps the robots when Skynet finally comes up

 

 

Cheers!

Kevin

[jar]

When it is signed "I Tobor".

[inkstainedruth]

Well, given that I've seen a robot play the bagpipes....

Yes, I'm serious. A few years ago I was at the Carnegie-Mellon University pavilion at the annual Highland Games in Ligonier, PA. Some professor designed robotic fingers that play a chanter, while a piston works the bag. This is all hooked up to a laptop with the music programmed in.

I must say it was very impressive, once it actually started playing tunes. Unfortunately it was also really, really loud. Not sure that the Kiltie Band (or the bagpipe major -- yes, at CMU you *can* major in bagpipe) anything to worry about -- yet...). Although there was a part of me going "this guy's parents shelled out all this money to go to college and graduate school. And this is what all that money went to: robotic bagpipes...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: I just read out the article (and showed the video link) to my husband. He's a software developer who has worked doing AI stuff, and he said that all the "qualifiers" are actually fairly easy to get around.

Edited September 27, 2014 by inkstainedruth

[sexauerw]

I usually address my handwritten envelopes using the widest cursive italic nib that I have currently inked. I haven't seen a robot with an italic pen yet.

[inkeverywhere]

I wonder if they can develope a robot like me - always sees another FP it wants to buy and use. Now that would be scary!

 

Greg

[Buzz_130]

That's a very interesting article, but based on a bunch of previous FPN posts, I thought handwriting was dead? It may be interesting if robotic handwriting preserves it!

 

Buzz

[WateryFlow]

Well, given that I've seen a robot play the bagpipes....

They can play guitar drums and bass too! Here's 3 robots playing The Ace of Spaces by Motorhead. Head banging is obviously a given

 

Edited September 27, 2014 by WateryFlow

[Downcelot]

When it is signed "I Tobor".

 

Well, at least, it is less shocking when the day comes with a letter that signed "I TE".

[Downcelot]

They can play guitar drums and bass too! Here's 3 robots playing The Ace of Spaces by Motorhead. Head banging is obviously a given

 

 

That drum bot is totally on FIRER!!!

[Redbarchettayyz]

When it's addressed "Dear Meatbag"

[Black Spot]

I loved this article, and it has brought a few thoughts to my mind,

what makes a man? cruddy hand writing.



the marking company's should be careful with this sort of gimmickry, In my case and allot of other people I know it causes resentment and anger.

fool me with some advertising trick and I am less likely to buy from you because in my mind if you are deceptive in your advertising, so you will be deceptive with your product to.



If a robot ever loves me enough to wright me a love letter I think I would be very happy. I can use all the love I an get.

[Surei]

When it's addressed "Dear Meatbag"

 

This might actually make me *more* likely to buy whatever it is they are selling

[Tas]

I usually address my handwritten envelopes using the widest cursive italic nib that I have currently inked. I haven't seen a robot with an italic pen yet.

 

Erm . . .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSLm51kmbg

[sexauerw]

 

Erm . . .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSLm51kmbg

I stand corrected. But, of the many mailings that I have received with robotic "hand written" addressing, I have yet to see even one with any trace of line width variation.